Tools
Every tool we cover, sorted into three groups. Pick what fits the job.
These are all the tools we cover, with a one-line purpose for each. Click any card for the full guide.
New here? Grab Flint, Jade, and Quartz first. Those three cover most of the work. The rest you'll pick up as you need them.
Modding apps
The core toolkit: extracting, editing, packing, fixing, audio.
FlintAll-in-one modding app. Extract, preview, edit BIN files, and pack the mod. The easiest start if you don't want to juggle separate tools.
Recommended JadeVisual BIN editor with syntax coloring, hover previews, and live hash lookups. Newer workflow than Ritobin.
Recommended QuartzVFX and material editor. Paint mode for particle recoloring, Port for moving VFX between champions, RGBA helper, batch image recolor.
LtMAOOlder all-in-one toolpack: BIN, audio (bnk_tool, wiwawe), WAD packing,
no-skin builder, animation fixes, mod manager (cslmao). Kept as a fallback.
Drag-and-drop converter that turns .bin into editable text. Solid for batch
scripts. Jade covers most cases now.
Auto-detects and fixes common skin issues. Invisible HP bars, white models, missing icons, broken particles.
League Mod RepatherRebuilds an old mod for the current patch when a League update breaks it.
WwisePro audio middleware. Only needed if you're rebuilding full .bnk soundbanks.
Free tier covers hobby projects.
Downloads Riot manifest files. Useful for older patches, PBE, or missing assets.
WAD and BIN files store names as hashes. Tools need a hash table to turn them back into readable paths.
- CommunityDragon publishes the raw hash tables.
- lmdb-hashes repacks them into a fast LMDB database every 6 hours.
- Flint and Quartz auto-fetch that database. No hashes folder to manage.
- Ritobin and standalone Jade use the older CommunityDragon folder model instead.
3D modeling
For champion models, rigging, and animations.
MayaIndustry standard 3D software. Best for rigging and UVs. Pair with the lol_maya plugin. Paid.
BlenderFree, open-source 3D suite. A real option for League now thanks to the Aventurine plugin.
Free AventurineBlender addon by Bud and Frog. Imports and exports League meshes, skeletons, and animations. Adds hair / cloth physics and animation retargeting.
Divine teamTexturing
Image editors, plugins to open League's .tex files, and Windows Explorer
previews.
Industry standard image editor. Best for serious texture work. Paid.
GIMPFree open-source image editor. The closest thing to a free Photoshop.
Free Paint.NETLightweight Windows image editor. The simplest option if Photoshop and GIMP feel like overkill.
Free RitoTexAdds .tex and .dds open and save support to Photoshop. Formerly the
Photoshop TEX Plugin. Required for League texture work in Photoshop.
Adds .tex open and save support to GIMP.
Adds .tex open and save support to Paint.NET.
Shows .tex files as image thumbnails in Windows Explorer. By RitoShark.
Same idea as the GuiSai handler, from the LeagueToolkit team. Pick one, not both.